bomb sites and graduations!

My room looks like a bomb site! I don't know why the maid didn't clean it, i dont like to sit in a messy room and now i have to tidy it up before i can relax! WTH!

Our visit today was really fun, we had a great time. We even talked to my mum's friend's daughters, they're in England, but we turned the webcam on and talked to them, it was really nice..

Now i feel energized and ready for the week ahead, except i havent finished shopping! argh!

I forgot to mention that Yamashita Tomohisa finally graduated from university on the 19th! Omedetou yamashita-kun!

People have been telling me ive lost weight, which i have but only a few kilos and i dont think it shows, so whenever someone says it im like not really sure whether they're telling the truth or just tryin to be nice lol doesn't matter either way, unless i lose a considerable amount of weight im not gonna be happy.. oh well..

My brothers been away with about 12 of his friend, they went for el3mra. Lucky buggers, i wanna go!

bai bai
PS i'll write about my lesson tomorrow, its too late to be talkin about grammar :D

update

My last update was last Saturday! i didnt think it was that long..

I wrote about marie-san in my last post, at the moment she is in japan with her kids staying at her family's house while her husband is studying in another prefecture. I hope when i go in Jan she will still be in tokyo so we can meet up a lot, but even if she goes to live with her husband by then, i will definitely go down there and see her. But if shes in Tokyo it would be much more fun coz we can go to so many different places..

I just remembered that i didnt write about my last japanese class so i will in another post later on today, if i get the chance. We are going out shopping in a couple of hours, we still havent finished shopping for eid.. and then we're going to my mum's oldest best-est friend ever's house to break our fast there.. I can't beleive we are 3 weeks into Ramadan! Almost a week to go, and a couple days! Its gone by so fast this year..

Yesterday my sis M and her kids and my adopted baby and her mum came over, we had a good time but they both left a little early. by 9 oclock they were gone, maybe even 8:30.. oh well at least we got to see them..

Whenever my sisters and i go in Monsoon we always love the kids' clothes they have, but unfortunately we dont have any kids around us so yesterday i saw this little cute dress that i fell in love with so i got it for my adopted baby with accessories and shoes, it felt so good to fnally buy one of those cute dresses lol anyways, i put them on her when she came and she looked adorable! Can't wait to see her in them!

I'm thinkin of getting the Macbook Air.. i dont want to move from windows to a mac coz i wont know how to use it at first, but macs are just so cool so i decided to get it and just learn how to use it..

While we were shopping yesterday all i could think about was Japan, looking at all the coats and winter clothes.. i can't wait to go really.. but i still havent figured out whats happening with work.. i gotta ask if i can take 2 weeks unpaid, i wonder what they'll say.. if they say no i will just have to quit, theres just no other way really.. ah well, we'll see what happens..

I watched a movie called "an american crime" yesterday which is supposed to be, not only "based on a true story" but almost everything in it is the truth, it was sad to think its true and someone could do such a thing, slow moving movie but i liked it. I also watched "the ruins" the other day which is a horror movie but wasnt really scary and i hated the ending, but atleast i watched something, havent been watching much recently..

I guess thats enough of me babbling away.. take care everyone!
bai bai

PS momonga ga hoshii!

Food

こんばんは！

ひさしぶり　です　ね～
みんな　げんき？

木ようび　に　マリさん　と　アイシャさん　きました。
OK switching to english coz i dont know how to say brought. Anyways, mari-san brought some sushi with her, crab and unagi. oishikatta desu yo! demo i dont think i like unagi very much, crab is better.


On to another topic, i made ceasar salad with chicken. it was awesome and everyone finished it all..
I went to the mall today to buy clothes and stuff, and i bought this cute mug and yet another DIET book..I also bought my first ever webcam..
Thats it for today, im listening to miyavi.. gotta go.. baibai

なにも

こんばんは！

さいきん　MIYAVI　と　Gackt に　はまっています！その　ふたり　の　うた　が　だいすき　です　よ！
あした　にほんご　の　レッスン　が　ある　ので　きょう　かんじ　を　べんきょう　しました。　たのしみに　まっています。しけん　が　ある　ので　がんばります　よ！

じゃ　また　ね！（＾＿＾）ｙ

PS　as soon as i saw "umai" i remembered the "umai/oichi" scene with pi and tegoshi in the neverending wonderful story DVD lol

Japanese lesson review

Konbanwa!
OK so fefechan asked me to write about my lesson again, i hope you find it helpful.

So, i had to write another paragraph in japanese for Wednesday's class, i wrote about my day, what i do when i get home. It was pretty lame but i can't write any complex sentences so thats what i wrote.

My first mistake was using "ni" after my workplace. I wrote "XXX ni hattaraiteimasu" when it should have been "XXX de hattaraiteimasu". I got this wrong coz i was in a hurry writing, but i know the rule anyways.

The second was writing "uchi ni wa", i wanted to say that "at home...", it should have been "uchi de wa".

My third was "intaanetto wo saafu shite" which i actually got from online, but yoriko-sensei said it should be "intaanetto saafu wo shite".

My fourth was when i tried to say "when my dad gets home", i wont tell you what i wrote lol but it should have been "otousan ga kaetara..". So i guess the rule is to use informal past + ra to say "when (the verb) happens", "when i eat", "when she goes"..etc

My fifth (wow lots of mistakes) was using "ni" after gurai. You don't need anything after gurai.

Another sentence i couldnt formulate was "we discussed many things/topics". Yoriko-sensei said "iroiro no hanashi wo shimasu" is OK.

I also wanted to say "most of the time" but didnt know how so i just used itsumo (always), to make it almost always or most of the time, you can add "hotondo" before itsumo. So like, "kono resutoran de hotondo itsumo sushi wo tabemasu".

After correcting my paragraph i had my test, which included saying english sentences in japanese, which was mainly for counters and wasnt hard. Heres a couple for you fefechan, you better answer it ;) How do you say "i drank 2 cups of tea yesterday" and " its now 10 to 7 pm" and "its 9:20:35 (9 oclock:20 mins: 35 seconds) now".

Then there was an excercise about the differnce between soshite/sorekara and gurai/goro. Then a question about particles. Heres another one for you fefechan,
Oosaka eki ( ) basu ( )notte kyouto ( ) basu ( ) orite kudasai. (put the particles in the parentheses)

Then it was translation. Then she taught me about yo and ne which i thought i knew, but what was new was, if the speaker is telling someone new information that the listner does not know about then you can use "yo". For example, your asking me about the food at a resturant you havent gone to yet, i say "oishii desu yo". "ne" as you already know is used for agreement when both speaker and listener know about the topic, so if you ask me about the food in a resturant we have both been to, "oishii desu ne" is used instead of "yo" as you are already familiar with the food there. Apparently "yo" kinda makes the sentence less direct, i thought it made it stronger but Yoriko-sensei said if you just say "oishii desu" its OK but sounds a bit direct like your answer is definitely right kinda thing, if you get what i mean.

Then we studied about changing i-adjectives and na-adjectives when a verb comes after. For example, when a NOUN comes after an i-adjective, it doesnt change. "kore wa oishii tabemono desu". But when a VERB comes after it, you take the i and add ku ( i kinda knew that but not too good), so like, "ano ko wa okiku narimashita". With na-adjectives, the na becomes ni, for example, "shizuka ni benkyou shimashou" or " kirei ni souji shite kudasai".

Then i learnt some Kanji, the days of the week (without the youbi part coz its complicated kanji) and the word month, and year, and hour and minute.

Here they are in typing first;
月(gatsu/month, tsuki/moon)
日(nichi/day, hi(bi))
火(as in tsuesday, hi (fire)
水(sui as in wednesday, mizu/water)
金(kin/gold/fri(day),kane/money)
土(dou as in saturday, tsuchi/mud)
木(moku as in thursday, ki/tree)
時(ji as in the hour (4-ji) or toki)
寺(tera/shrine, part of "ji")
分(fun/minutes)
年(nen/year)　

Its pretty easy to mess up the kanji just by writing it in the wrong order so Yoriko-sensei insisted that i did every stroke in the right order.

I think thats it for Wednesday's lesson. Next week im learning more grammar and kanji, and i have an exam and homework again. I was really disappointed in myself in reading/speaking, at home im sure i pronounce everything right but when im nervous in class i seem to have such bad pronunciation.. i gotta try to calm down a bit so i dont mess up.. Ok then, ja mata!

PS marie-san, if you notice anything wrong please let me know.

Bored at work

Sitting at work with practically nothing to do, on Wednesday me & my collegue in the Accounts Payable section worked hard and finished everything thats pending. So on Thursday we were free almost all day.. I had a japanese exam with yoriko-sensei that day so i sat & tried to study (ended up studying the lesson that are NOT included by mistake). Today too were almost free, i handle the petty cash & receiving invoices so a couple of people have come to me but other than that, its pretty quite here. My direct mentor/senpai didnt come to work today so i dont have to look like im working.. so im pretty bored.. i think im going to study some japanese..

Tomorrow's ramadan i guess, so im going out for lunch with Bash & 2 other girls. Cami, you must've heard of ramadan but maybe you dont know what it is. Anyways, its a month where we have to fast in the day (from sunrise to sunset), we dont eat or drink anything, and after sunset we can eat. Its to teach us humilty and so we know what the poor people who dont have food feel like. Its a really great month and at the end of it we have Eid which is kinda like christmas to us. We all celebrate & get money from our paernts lol and stuff.. People kinda abuse ramadan, they use it as a month to OVEREAT and OVERSLEEP in the day and STAY UP TOO LATE at night.. anyways its a really nice time of the year when we get to do more good thinks and think about other people.

The end of this month, Septmeber, is going to be so busy with my sis hopefully giving birth, and my grandma coming over for that, plus all the eid celebrations..

Anyways im probably going to blog later.. bai bai

Last week's japanese lesson

I forgot that i wanted to post about my japanese class. On Thursday i had my second lesson with Yoriko-sensei. She had given me homework to write about anything and i wrote about what i had done on the weekend. She corrected it for me. I'll just write her corrections, fefechan, seeing my mistakes might be useful to you ne..

1. I had written in the whole paragraph, mina-san instead of minna, i thought that was the polite way to say everyone, but she told me it is only said like that in speech, if you are talking to or about everyone you can say mina-san but when you write you should use minna.
2. I had written "mina-san ga oishii hirugohan wo tabemashita". She said i must use "de" instead of "ga" if im included in the poeple who ate. So its like "i ate with everyone", if you use ga, it seems like you are not included.
3. i wrote "kodomotachi ga zenbu suki deshita", she said that implies that ONLY the kids liked the food, i should use "mo" so it means the kids like it also.
4. She said you cant use "sorekara" at the end of a paragraph, i had it at the beginning of the last sentence. She said it implies there more sentences coming after this one. "Soshite" would have been more appropriate but sorekara can be used in other sentences at the beginning.

Then she gave me a test which i got all right, thank god. I was so nervous writing that my handwriting was soooo bad, i dont know how she read all my crooked hiragana. The exam was easy actually so next class shes getting questions from the JLPT exams. She then taught me about counters and two kanji, entrance and exit (iriguchi and deguchi), and we had an extended discussion on kanji.

She also gave me this envelope which she uses with her piano students (she gives private piano lessons), she said they use it in japan. I'm posting a pic, its to put the "ressun dai" lesson fee in, and it has the months and stuff.. Its a good idea, i thought.

So next Wednesday i have a kanji test, as well as grammar and the different counters used for different things. GANBARIMASU! i really want to improve..